Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.